What is torpedo? torpedo is torpede
What is torpede?
- A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target.
Un projectil sota l'aigua en forma de cigars, autopropulsat llançat des d'un submarí, avió o vaixell i dissenyat per detonar en contacte amb, o en les proximitats d'un objectiu.
- Any of various submarine explosive devices, especially a submarine mine.
Qualsevol dels diversos artefactes explosius submarins, especialment una mina submarina.
- A small explosive placed on a railroad track that is fired by the weight of the train to sound a warning of an approaching hazard.
- An explosive fired in an oil or gas well to begin or increase the flow.
Un explosiu disparat en un pou de petroli o gas per començar o augmentar el flux.
- A small firework consisting of gravel wrapped in tissue paper with a percussion cap that explodes when thrown against a hard surface.
Un petit castell de focs artificials consistent en grava embolicada en paper de seda amb un tap de percussió que explota quan es llança contra una superfície dura.
- See electric ray.
Vegeu raig elèctric.
- Slang A professional assassin or thug.
- Chiefly New Jersey See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
Vegeu principalment submarí New Jersey. Vegeu Nota regional al submarí.
- To attack, strike, or sink with a torpedo.
- To destroy decisively; wreck: torpedo efforts at reform.
Destruir decisivament; Naufragi: torpede els esforços de reforma.